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What does this mean? Does it has something to do with... I don't know, the Sun SPARC CPUs?
It's for SPARC and PA-RISC when the kernel dies
Okay, but what is sparc and pa-risc?
OMG I feel old.
Also regret the money I spent buying Sun stock in the late 90s.
As someone who was Sun Certified 5.7.1 to version 10, I feel this way too hard as well.
nice